Dr. Komarovsky about protein in the urine of a child

In analyzes of urine, a protein is found in a child. The pediatrician is alarmed, parents are shocked. Outwardly, there is no change in the baby’s behavior, he looks perfectly healthy, and here’s the result! Evgeny Olegovich Komarovsky, a well-known and respected pediatrician of the highest category and told by his parents, is a well-known and respected pediatrician of the highest category who tells parents what the appearance of protein in the urine is and what to do with it.

Proteinuria is a high content of protein in the urine.

Normal urine protein should not be at all. More precisely, he is there, of course, but in such small quantities that not even highly accurate laboratory equipment can catch his tracks. An increase of this amount to the levels determined by the laboratory technician may indicate both serious disturbances in the child’s body and some quite harmless and normal physiological states.

The normal figure, which should not be disturbing, is 0.003 grams of reactive protein per liter.

If the number in the analysis of your child is significantly higher, there may be several reasons:

• The disease in the initial or active stage. For example, the baby begins to get SARS and his temperature is slightly elevated.
• Any infection that the child has suffered no earlier than 2 weeks prior to the analysis.
• Allergy in the acute stage.
• General hypothermia of the body.
• Strong stress recently experienced by a child.
• Significant physical activity.
• Poisoning.
• Drug intoxication with prolonged use of drugs.
• Tuberculosis.
• Diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract.
• Problems with blood formation processes.

If a child has an increased concentration of protein in the urine, do not panic, Yevgeny Komarovsky urges. The cause of such a laboratory result is not always in pathology. For example, in newborns and children in the first weeks of life, elevated protein is generally a variant of the norm, and in infants the most common overfeeding can cause a rise in such indicators in the urine. Ate too much - there was an additional load on the body - increased protein.

Quite often, protein is detected in the urine erroneously, Komarovsky emphasizes. This can happen if the analysis is collected incorrectly. Urine needs to be brought only in a clean special plastic jar with a tight lid. Before collecting, you need to undermine the child with soap, and if it’s about a girl, for a time of emptying the bladder, close the breath into the vagina with a cotton swab to avoid foreign secretions in the urine.

What is the need to undermine the girls - Dr. Komarovsky gives his advice, which will allow you to avoid unnecessary health problems of your beloved beauties in the family.

If experts come to the conclusion that the cause of the increased protein is initially pathological, most often we are talking about kidney diseases and the excretory system, Komarovsky says. Most often there are diagnoses such as cystitispyelonephritis. These conditions will require special treatment, which will appoint a children's nephrologist.

If the protein in the urine has increased due to an infection or a disease like ARVI, during an attack of allergy, parents do not need anything special, Komarovsky said. After all, the indicators will return to normal on their own some time after the baby recovers.

In any case, the doctor recommends not to postpone the visit to the doctor. In the meantime, he is being examined, the child needs to create the most relaxed atmosphere, reduce physical activity, and emotional stress. Sometimes a simple correction of nutrition and a calm homely family environment is enough to make a baby’s urine analysis normal.

While the child is growing, mothers often face the delivery of baby urine to the clinic. On the analysis of urine and urinary tract infections, Dr. Komarovsky argues in his transfer.